HuffPo Gets Punked
Oh, this is rich.
I know few regular TAH readers are HuffPo fans. Well, recently they showed their “mad journalistic skilz”.
Seems that HuffPo South Africa published – then retracted – some obvious bullsh!t masquerading as an op/ed piece. It seems that someone purporting to be a feminist from South Africa wrote a piece advocating that voting rights be withheld from white males to “wrestle control of the world back from white males”. The restriction wouldn’t be permanent – only “for 20 years (just less than a generation)”.
The claimed “author” was, of course, fake. And the person who actually wrote the ridiculous trollbait HuffPo swallowed apparently did it to prove a point: that the HuffPo would publish anything that fit their editorial worldview, regardless of truth or suitability. Seems as if the article didn’t even meet HuffPo’s own guidelines for publication.
Oh, did I mention that the HuffPo went so far as to post an article defending the obvious bullsh!t before realizing it was bullsh!t? They were forced afterwards not only to run a retraction, but to explicitly state that they were in favor of universal suffrage.
Heat Street has an article giving more details. It’s a hoot.
“Mad journalistic skilz”, indeed. “Gullible morons” is more accurate.
But hey, we’re talking the HuffPo. We should expect no less!
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*POW!*, right in the HuffyPoo’s collective kisser, ROFLMAO!!!
If it is tooooo good to be true…
Damn, that writer is good!
This is The Goal – so believable that it sparks outrage or whatever, but generates lots and lots of talk and goes viral and maybe even gets a Mitch McConnell investigation, and then the perp says ‘Hah! Gotcha!”
Kudos to the author. I will sacrifice a slice of Swiss cheese and a glass of cheap red wine in her honor.
I love this job!
That writer has the mad skilz not the morons at huffpo.
When im bored i often troll a few sites. Some people, especially those on the left, take themselves way too seriously
I especially enjoyed the deletion of the piece that supported the disenfranchisement of white South African males AFTER the HuffPo learned that they had been duped. It was a double screwing, with the second wholly self inflicted. As for the proposal, losing the vote beats losing one’s life. South Africa has gone down the tubes, every which way, and it appears that the hunting season (power drills and blowtorches are preferred) on white farmers never closes. Like nearly all of Black Africa, South Africa is corrupt and mismanaged, a shit hole. Who cares? Not the Left, not since apartheid ended.
Corrupt & mismanaged? Like Detroit? Oakland?
It’s what happened in Rhodesia beforehand….
The breadbasket of Africa was Rhodesia, lovely people with lots of prosperous farms. A great bar in Salisbury in the mid 70s called Le Coq D’or I think where a lot of music that was hot at the time was played.
The US decided it wasn’t going to back a small white government against the commie bastards trying to destroy the nation, the US even threatened to prosecute anyone foolish enough to believe that fighting commies was a good reason to go there and help the Rhodesians…now the nation that fed all of Africa can’t feed itself thanks to the commies under Mugabe….Zimbabwe was the precursor to how South Africa might turn out. A third world shit hole where once there was prosperity and a bountiful harvest.
But hey let’s import some of these foreigners here to ruin our nation too, that way the whole world can be a giant starving shithole…
Can’t remember where I read it but pre-‘Independence’ someone said “Today we go to Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe. Tomorrow we will go to Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia.”
Used to be the second largest economy on the continent as I recall.
Indeed it was and it was a beautiful country.
I was in Zimbabwe in 1995 (our entire battalion deployed to Africa for a big training exercise and the BN HQ ended up in Zimbabwe.) It was still a prosperous country then but the cracks were already starting to show. Most of the whites with the means to do so were trying to figure out how to get out to a safer place.
What surprised me was that even 15 years after Mugabe took over, most of the wealth was still controlled by the whites. They lived in communities in the suburbs that look exactly like American suburbs except that each house was surrounded by a 10′ high fence, usually concrete, and the top of the fence is covered in broken glass (they put intact bottles into the concrete and after the concrete dries they break the glass.) Most of the driveways had large steel gates and were often guarded by armed guards.
It was an interesting place. Outside of the workplace I saw very little interaction between blacks and whites there. There were bars and nightclubs in the suburbs that looked pretty much like what you’d find in any mid sized American city, and the only blacks there were the staff. Then there were bars downtown where the only white people there were us and a few other adventurous souls.
The only real sign of “Communism” was that the local papers, instead of referring to people as Mr. or Mrs. or Ms, referred to people generally as “Comrade” or just “Cde” for short.
You would have enjoyed it immensely in the 70s….we had a blast there…
Where’s Hondo?
Heh. I can here the voice of Montgomery Burns saying “Excellent” as he rubs his hands together.
One of those “true colors” moments, eh? I wonder if they realize how predictable they are.
It will be hilarious to see Paul Joseph Watson rip them a new ass over this.
One of the problems with the Huffington Post is that baked into its original business plan was the idea that writers should work for free. At first blush, such might sound like a clever Tom-Sawyer’s-fence idea, but it can eventually come back to bite you on the ass.
When writers aren’t paid, you tend to wind up with two kinds of writers: dilettantes and those with an agenda. While such an approach can function in the short term, it’s pretty much doomed in the longer one. At least if you’re trying to do quality journalism on a regular basis.
But from the point of view of Arianna Huffington and her partners, all that mattered was that the business plan work long enough to flip the Huff Po to a larger company. And that’s what happened when it sold to America Online, which itself was then acquired by Verizon.